An emergency public meeting

HOW TO GET OUT OF IRAQ...
AND WHY ATTACKING IRAN WOULD BE REALLY DUMB

Featuring two intelligence experts (who happen to be New Yorkers)

SCOTT RITTER
Former U.N. Weapons Inspector

and

RAY McGOVERN
Former Senior CIA Analyst (27-year veteran)

With observations by

JEFF COHEN
Author of “Cable News Confidential” and the founder of FAIR

and

JONATHAN TASINI
Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate from New York

All five CANDIDATES FOR U.S. SENATE FROM NEW YORK
have been invited to take part in this important community forum

Jonathan was on two news segments of MSNBC this morning about why Senator Clinton hasn't said yet yes to a debate.

Channel 7 (ABC) and Channel 2 (CBS) interviewed him during his visit to the New Rochelle Farmers Market, so tune into those channels to see him on the evening news tonight.

He's also taping Cutting Edge with Richard Rose on WLNY TV - Channel 55 (Long Island) today. The show airs tonight at 11pm, 7:30pm on Saturday and 1:30 on Sunday.

Finally he's taping a segment of Newsmakers with Dave Wolf on News 12 - Westchester which will air Saturday at starting 9:00am and running every half hour.

Tasini looks at the old Buffalo Forge factory in Buffalo

From the Buffalo News

Tasini tackles underdog challenge -Presses bid to oust Clinton in primary
By MARK SOMMER

"Sixty-five percent of the people say they still don't know who I am. So a debate is very important, both for the voters and for the campaign," Jonathan Tasini says.
Jonathan Tasini came to Buffalo on Thursday, criticizing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for supporting the Iraq War; he also unveiled an economic plan that calls for fundamental reform of corporate power.

Jeff Cohen will appear with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern at a public forum in New York City this Sunday night titled "How To Get Out of Iraq." All New York senate candidates have been invited to participate. So far Sen. Clinton hasn't responded to the invitation. Jonathan Tasini will be there.

Hillary Still Hiding on War; Time Warner Provides Cover
Jeff Cohen

The cover story in the new issue of TIME, the flagship publication of the Time Warner media empire, informs readers that Hillary Clinton has "virtually nonexistent opposition for her senate seat."

Hold that phrase in your head. Because at another outpost of the Time Warner empire, decisions have been made that help ensure Sen. Clinton will have "virtually nonexistent opposition."

Time Warner's NY1 TV news channel ("the CNN of New York") adamantly refuses to host a Democratic New York Senate debate. Despite protests over its decision, NY1 says it is giving incumbent Clinton a no-debate free pass because her antiwar challenger, union leader Jonathan Tasini, has not raised enough money; the channel arbitrarily set the bar at a half-million dollars. This despite the fact that Tasini has reached 13% in polls. (NY1 first announced its no-debate ruling just as Ned Lamont -- given no chance months ago -- was defeating pro-war incumbent Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's primary.)

Ironically, NY1 has already hosted and televised a Democratic New York gubernatorial debate between frontrunner Eliot Spitzer and a Democratic challenger who was at only 10% in the polls. But that candidate had raised about $6 million. So spending millions to get just 10% in popular support was rewarded by Time Warner's channel, while building a more effective grassroots campaign, largely of volunteers, was punished. (One wonders how much of the money went to NY1.)

New York, NY – Marist released a poll yesterday which found that only ten percent of Democrats in New York say they will vote for a pro-war candidate whereas 64 percent (up from 62 percent from the last Marist poll in July) say they would vote an anti-war candidate.

“Once again I stand where the majority of Democratic voters stand on the issue of the war in Iraq,” said Tasini. ”Why is Hillary Clinton unwilling to have an open debate on the war? This is the issue that is central on voters' minds and she is showing a lack of respect for the voters and for democracy by refusing to engage in a debate."